London police ignore 45% of crimes

[Baluarte]

London Metropolitan Police has been ignoring up to 45 percent of all crimes in the city that amount to hundreds of thousands of street attacks, burglaries and fraud.

New data released by the police on Monday, showed the cases are simply tagged unsolvable, or “screened out”, only hours after an allegation is made.

This comes as almost a recent study also showed that almost on third of all crimes across England and Wales are also screened out by the forces.

Based on the Metropolitan Police figures for 2012-2013, 76 percent of all motor vehicle thefts, 40 percent of residential burglaries and 23 percent of robberies are not investigated.

That is besides 40 percent individual fraud allegations and two thirds of criminal damage claims.
The data showed the police has screened out a total 346,397 cases last year compared to 424,091 cases, which were further investigated.

In reaction to the publication of the figures, Conservative member of the London Assembly Roger Evans said the situation is a disgrace.

http://english.irib.ir/news/politica...e-45-of-crimes

[Ali Pasha]

London has gone to hell, what else is new.

[Caismeachd]

When I lived in San Francisco it was the same way. People would smash windows of cars to steal things the police would just write a ticket or ignore them. You could get away with murder there most likely. Big cities are pretty anarchistic and disordered in general. That's human nature I suppose.

[Graham]

Front-line understaffed or leadership problems?

Child plays football near cars. Get the whole patrol on the case.